POST BY RICH: Climbing

Ok. Today, I’m in the “cheerleader” mood in our fight for inner peace. You know, if you’ve read my other blogs, (and if Patty posted them) that my outlook on “the fight for inner peace” has not always been positive. I’ve had, and continue to have, days where I feel like crap and would want to kick the crap out of anyone who gave me the “cheerleader” rah, rah junk when I’m in Hell experiencing the pain from my demons! So, if you’re having one of those days today, and would like to kick the crap out of me for what follows, please, don’t read on.

I just heard this for the first time. Interpret it how it fits for you. I did. Today, it is helpful. Tomorrow, well, I may feel like kicking the crap out of myself!

“The Climb,” sung by Miley Cirus –

I can almost see it; that dream I am dreaming.
But there’s a voice inside my head saying ‘You’ll never reach it.’
Every step I’m taking, every move I make feels lost with no direction.
My faith is shaking, but I gotta keep trying.
Gotta keep my head held high.

There’s always gonna be another mountain.
I’m always gonna wanna make it move.
Always gonna be a uphill battle.
Sometimes I’m gonna have to lose.
Ain’t about how fast I get there.
Ain’t about what’s waiting on the other side. It’s the climb.

The struggles I’m facing, the chances I’m taking, sometimes might knock me down.
But no, I’m not breaking.
I may not know it, but these are the moments that I’m gonna remember most.

Yeah just gotta keep going.
And I, I got to be strong; just keep pushing on.
‘Cause there’s always gonna be another mountain.
I’m always gonna wanna make it move.
Always gonna be a uphill battle.
Sometimes I’m gonna have to lose.
Ain’t about how fast I get there.
Ain’t about what’s waiting on the other side.
It’s the climb, yeah!

There’s always gonna be another mountain.
I’m always gonna wanna make it move.
Always gonna be an uphill battle somebody’s gonna have to lose.
Ain’t about how fast I get there.
Ain’t about what’s waiting on the other side.
It’s the climb, yeah!

Keep on moving.
Keep climbing.
Keep the faith.

Baby, it’s all about, it’s all about the climb.
Keep the faith.
Keep your faith.”

I find the words helpful in my battle. But, I don’t agree with all of them. For example, the “mountain” of which she speaks, I see as the inner peace I so desperately seek. In that context, it IS how fast I get there. It IS about what’s waiting on the other side. Yes, to get there you have to “climb” the mountain. You have to keep on moving and you have to keep the faith that it waits on the other side, whether it comes from therapy, medication, meditation, a combination of each or any other process that brings that inner peace to you.